Article September 30, 1996 Issue

A QUESTIONS & ANSWERS EXCHANGE

Are there questions you'd like to explore with other readers and with the editorial staff of the Sentinel? This column offers a place for that exchange to happen. What's here isn't intended to give a definitive answer. The queries and the ideas spring from the heart, as we are walking side by side.

Q. Why are analogies to mathematics often used in explaining Christian Science?—from a reader in California

A. Concrete examples are always helpful when explaining an idea that is new to someone else. For example, it's not difficult for most people to grasp the concept that the principle of mathematics is constant. It's understood that each of us does not have his or her own personal multiplication table that might get out of kilter or be absent just when one needs it. Such analogies to mathematics help present the concept that God is the one divine Principle, unerringly governing man and the universe.

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